https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue en-us 2017-03-06 13:38:28 UTC 2025-09-26 17:40:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png kadenbarksdale https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158333307 England owned the whole island before WW1]]> 2017-03-07 14:04:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158333307 kadenbarksdale https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158336247 They lost some of their land when Ireland gained independence, but Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales all stayed a part of England after WW1.]]> 2017-03-07 14:12:00 UTC https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158336247 kadenbarksdale https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158337847 England holds a lot of territories in Eastern Africa, including Egypt. They also hold territories in South Africa.]]> 2017-03-07 14:15:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158337847 nolandiekevers https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158341612 2017-03-07 14:24:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158341612 kadenbarksdale https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158345416 England had a constitutional government before WWI, but it was not yet a democracy. Some men could still not vote, and no women could vote.  The aristocratic House of Lords had limited power to veto the Legislature. In 1914, Britain was no longer the biggest military power in Europe, with countries like Germany out-performing them.  However, it still had the biggest military ship-building industry in the world. They were the first country to develop a modern ship called the HMS Dreadnought, in 1906.]]> 2017-03-07 14:33:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158345416 daisybradley https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158351092 2017-03-07 14:45:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158351092 kadenbarksdale https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158351193 2017-03-07 14:45:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158351193 nolandiekevers https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158649532 2017-03-08 13:54:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158649532 kadenbarksdale https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158651656 After WWI, England changed to a full-fledged democracy. In the Representation of the People Act, they gave the right to vote to all men over 21 and all women over 30. This increased the voting numbers from 7.7 million to 21.4 million. Historians considered the war to be a driving factor for these political changes.]]> 2017-03-08 13:59:57 UTC https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158651656 nolandiekevers https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158652945 After WWI the working class (women, children, old or sick men who could not fight) gained more political power because of their involvement in making supplies for the war.  The working class also had better living conditions after the war.]]> 2017-03-08 14:03:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158652945 nolandiekevers https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158657942 Britain was the most technologically advanced along with Germany and the U.S. Britain was an industrial nation importing raw materials from there many colonies and making them into goods to sell.]]> 2017-03-08 14:15:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158657942 kadenbarksdale https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158660654  During WW1 Great Britain had borrow a lot from other countries to finance the war effort. The national debt increased from 650m in 1914 to 7.4 billion in 1919.]]> 2017-03-08 14:21:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158660654 kadenbarksdale https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158661136 England lost some land in South Africa, but the other European countries lost more land. They did gain land from Germany, making Britain the rulers of land from Cape Town to the Suez Canal, and then built a railroad from there to the Mediterranean. Britain also gained land in the Middle East, and kept their control over Australia and Canada.]]> 2017-03-08 14:22:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/158661136 kadenbarksdale https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/159271381 large amount of women were put into jobs left by men who had gone to support the war effort.]]> 2017-03-10 14:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kadenbarksdale/a7xten4jcyue/wish/159271381